Chris
ps. for those of us NOT attending the party in " Sam Frank's Disco",
please provide a summary upon your return.
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>In The Dawn of the Third Age "chris drew" <seegeedrew at hotmail.com>
>woke me from my contemplation by writing:
>
>> As for the syndicate idea, I've done it the past and yes, it is
>>"caveat emptor". People know BEFORE they put up their money that all
>>the fish may arrive at their door dead or someone may not be
>>successful with his or her fish but on the whole everyone accepts the
>>risk and rolls the dice. In my most recent experience with this
format,
>>6
>>guys put up C$125 each and in return now have 5 different
>>species/[populations swimming in their tanks. Everybody on average
>>received 5 fish of each species produced from the original purchase.
>>About C$5 per fish!! That works out to US$3.50 per fish!!! You can't
do
>>any better than that!
>Actually I think its a great idea. But for folks that haven't
>participated in this type of thing I thought I'd point out possible
>risks. Personlly I feel it is worth the risks. And I've enjoyed the
>thinking out loud, it helps to stimulate new ideas.
>
>>BTW what news do you have on the Species Maint. program?
>I've had much less response than I would of liked :-(
>But everything has to start somewhere. I'll be speaking more about it
>at the convention. If I spill everything here I won't have much to
>speak about next weekend. But I am planning on keeping the list of
>breeders on a web page. Its up now but needs to be updated. I'd also
>like to have permission from particpants to put up a blind web page
>with contact info. This means no links from anywhere. Only
>participants would get the URL to access it. I feel one of the things
>we need is more contact between people keeping bows and having easily
>available contact info could help.
>
>later
>Cary Hostrawser
>
>My Rainbowfish Home Page
>http://pw2.netcom.com/~caryho/home.html
>
>Rainbowfish Study Group Web Page
>http://home.stlnet.com/~gwlange/rainbowfish.index.html
>
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